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Automation Anywhere, a global leader in automation software today announced the newest version of Testing Anywhere, now available for Silverlight and Java applications. Testing Anywhere first launched in December 2009 and is being adopted by large system integrators and other software development teams looking for significantly better efficiencies and quality around automated software testing.

Testing Anywhere now tests any application on any Windows platform; tests web applications on Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome; and tests custom applications written in more than 20 languages including Python, Perl, C++ and C#.

Testing Anywhere provides a new, more efficient way to automate software testing and collaborate among QA professionals, developers and other members of the application development life cycle. Testing Anywhere’s unique Object Avatar functionality is widely seen as a breakthrough technology for creating test cases, especially useful for agile development. Object Avatar creates test cases up to 300% faster by not needing to connect to an application while creating tests. Testing Anywhere also increases testing speed and improves collaboration through its Test-to-EXE functionality that can convert a test to an EXE, allowing the user to run and share the test case on any machine, even running on computers where Testing Anywhere is not installed. One of the most powerful features of Testing Anywhere is the ability to automate test cases that are not instrumented – QA testers can test product-ready test cases, omitting the need for code stripping at a later time.

“When we launched Testing Anywhere few years ago, we saw immediate interest from major System Integrators, developers and QA professionals who saw how much time our unique Object Avatar and test-to-exe functionality could save them,” said Mihir Shukla, founder and CEO of Automation Anywhere. “Automation Anywhere now serves large customers in both the business process automation market as well as in automated software testing. Today, we are glad today to be able to extend Testing Anywhere to people working with Java and Silverlight.”

Introducing Testing Anywhere for Java and Testing Anywhere for Silverlight:

• Automated Java Testing: With this launch, Testing Anywhere works with Java applications, offering a state-of-the-art, comprehensive, object-level testing automation solution to ensure top quality in Java development environments. Testing Anywhere supports testing automation of standard Java objects, as well as custom controls.

• Automated Silverlight Testing: Testing Anywhere can help you deliver your Silverlight applications and plug-ins faster by automating your test cases. Testing Anywhere supports all of the Silverlight capabilities and tools, including IIS Smooth Streaming, PivotViewer, SketchFlow, Deep Zoom, Pixel Shader effects, 3D graphics, and Skinning and Styling.

• Recording Java and Silverlight Test Cases: Testing Anywhere’s SMART Test Recorder understands all Java web or Silverlight objects. Simply record test cases with this advanced recorder and it will automatically capture all properties related to the Java objects. No programming knowledge is needed. Advanced users can customize the type of test that is run (object, image, or coordinate) to be the most appropriate.

• Test Editor with 585 commands and Object Avatar: Easily create Java or Silverlight test cases visually without programming, or use Testing Anywhere’s 585 edit commands to enhance your tests. Edit your test cases using Normal View for simple drag-and-drop editing, or use Expert View for code-based editing. Testing Anywhere’s Object Avatar introduces a technology for creating test cases up to 300% faster by not connecting to the test application.

• Read more about automated testing of Java applications automationanywhere.com/.

Size is one of the most important attributes of a software product. It is not only the key indicator of software cost and time but also a base unit to derive other metrics for project status and software quality measurement. Size metric is used as an essential input for most of cost estimation models such as COCOMO, SLIM, SEER-SEM and Price-S.

Although source lines of code or SLOC is a widely accepted sizing metric, there is a lack of standard that enforces a consistency of what and how to count SLOC. Ensuring consistency across independent organizations in the rules used to count software cost code is often difficult to achieve. To that end, the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has developed and released a code counting toolset called CodeCount to support sizing software code for historical data collection and reporting purposes. This toolset is a collection of tools designed to automate the collection of source code sizing information. It implements the popular code counting standards published by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and adapted by COCOMO. Logical and physical SLOC are among the metrics generated by the toolset.

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CLOC counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.  It is written entirely in Perl with no dependencies outside the standard distribution of Perl v5.6 and higher (code from some external modules is embedded within cloc) and so is quite portable.   CLOC is known to run on many flavors of Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, Solaris, IRIX, z/OS, and Windows.  (To run the Perl source version of cloc on Windows one needs ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 or higher, or Cygwin installed.  Alternatively one can use the Windows binary of cloc generated with perl2exe to run on Windows computers that have neither Perl nor Cygwin.) cloc contains code from David Wheeler’s SLOCCount, Damian Conway and Abigail’s Perl module Regexp::Common, and Sean M. Burke’s Perl module Win32::Autoglob,

cloc has many features that make it easy to use, thorough, extensible, and portable:

1. Exists as a single, self-contained file that requires minimal installation effort—just download the file and run it.

2. Can read language comment definitions from a file and thus potentially work with computer languages that do not yet exist.

3. Allows results from multiple runs to be summed together by language and y project.

4. Can produce results in a variety of formats: plain text, XML, YAML, comma separated values.

5. Can count code within compressed archives (tar balls, Zip files, Java .ear files).

6. Has numerous troubleshooting options.

7. Handles file and directory names with spaces and other unusual characters.

8. Has no dependencies outside the standard Perl distribution.

9. Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, and z/OS systems that have Perl 5.6 or higher.  The source version runs on Windows with either ActiveState Perl or cygwin.  Alternatively on Windows one can run the Windows binary which has no dependencies.

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Kodos is a Python GUI utility for creating, testing and debugging regular expressions for the Python programming language.  Kodos should aid any developer to efficiently and effortlessly develop regular expressions in Python.  Since Python’s implementation of regular expressions is based on the PCRE standard, Kodos should benefit developers in other programming languages that also adhere to the PCRE standard (Perl, PHP, etc…).

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